I suspected there were extras at one time, although I would suspect, given the lack of this type in S scale, that many of them have ended up under things like cabooses. Neither the zamac Ace archbars nor even the brass trucks formerly marketed through SHS are the right shape for what I need, even if I could fabricate leaf springs for them.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 09:47:32 -0500 Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Archbar Tender Trucks Jace, Omnicon's first two engines had similar but different sets of trucks although both were leaf spring archbars. Extra trucks were available at one time, but good luck finding any. A few years ago some of the Houston S Gaugers put together a field trip to visit/photograph all the stuffed engines we could find in East Texas. We found one that had two different style trucks, so mix and match isn't just for bikinis! Bob Werre PhotoTraxx On 6/28/13 7:43 PM, JGG KahnSr wrote: Some months ago I finally bought one of the Omnicon MP 2-8-0's. It was generally in pretty good shape but someone had replaced the archbar leaf-spring tender trucks with Andrews, which from such research as I've done are quite incorrect. None of my obvious ideas for finding any have panned out. Does anyone have an extra set they'd be willing to part with? Archbar leaf spring trucks seem to be quite rare in S scale: other than these, the only others I could find were under the BTS 0-6-0 tenders--and Bill Wade wrote he had none to spare. Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
